44 Quotes by Peter Higgs

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP, might have enough energy to produce the particle.

The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.

The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.